TV’s Trend of Killing Lesbian Characters Prompts the 'Lexa Pledge'

Named after The 100 character, the Lexa Pledge pushes TV show producers to create more positive storylines for LGBTQ characters. “I don’t know what my experience would’ve been like if I was a teenager now and watching queer female characters get shot or stabbed or drowned one after the other after the other,” says Noelle Carbone, a lesbian and co-executive producer of Saving Hope who helped create the Lexa Pledge. PLUS: Watch a “Stop Killing Queer Women” PSA.

The TV legend sparked a conversation that actually inspired tonight’s episode, which delves into financial insecurity between married people. Creator Kenya Barris also revealed that the season finale, titled Good-ish Times, will pay homage to Lear.

Presented with the opportunity to promote her Joining Forces initiative on one of TV’s highest-rated shows, the first lady’s appearance sounds like "an incredibly dry government-sanctioned infomercial,” as Stuart Heritage notes. Obama would’ve been better off doing something on NCIS that's more attention-grabbing.

Cox is set to produce and starring in ITV’s Truthing, a comedy pilot in which she plays the leader of a group of truth-seekers who search for enlightenment at the Clear-Path Institute. Truthing won’t affect Cox’s other TV project, the Fox TV pilot Charity Case.